Lucia has a somewhat ambivalent personality, because when it comes to work she is the most organized, serious and dedicated to budgeting for events, but when it comes to enjoying herself… She is the life of the party!
With Galician and Extremaduran ancestry, but born in Madrid and with a love for folklore, her personality is characterized by touches of both regions and by the feeling that this rhythm transmits. As cat-like as a Madrileña, as close as a Galician, as warm and cheerful as an Extremaduran and as unique as a Guadalupense!
During the interview we discovered a little more about Lucía, about her sensitivity, her talents and those tastes that without knowing why she is a little embarrassed to share.
“I’m not a person who on a day-to-day basis seeks to be in the limelight and I don’t like to brag about things either. Even though I don’t look like it, I’m shy.”
What did we discover that surprised us so much?
We discovered that she is passionate about the sea and everything that surrounds her, since she was a child she feels a special love for Galicia, her father’s land, its culture, its gastronomy and its estuary.
“I would love to be able to live near the sea, a little house next to the beach, have a boat, a sailboat, if possible, go sailing every day, fishing, diving… I love the sea and all the animals that live in it, the best experience of my life was swimming with dolphins in the open sea, I have never felt anything so special. Connecting with an animal, it was spectacular!”
Lucía’s professional life before she became the event budget manager at WORKOUT EVENTS.
As ambivalent as her personality are her tastes in terms of work, and although one can think about the incompatibility between the profession of makeup artist and administrative, these are the two areas that she is passionate about and in which she has developed.
“Before working I wasn’t very clear about what my vocation was, but I’ve never been a person who stops, so I started studying a course in accounting for SMEs, where I learned about administration, and later I went to work at Corte Inglés as a makeup artist.”
She got her job as a makeup artist thanks to her talent for drawing and painting, an art she learned from her whole family, since everyone in her family practices it.
In order to learn more and professionalize her talent, she studied the Superior Degree of Personal Image Consulting and thanks to this she started working with luxury brands. But it was not enough! She wanted to continue learning and combine her new studies with her administrative knowledge.
“I was already working as a makeup artist, but I was looking forward to an office job. To make the leap I had to start from scratch, so I agreed to do an internship in an office.”
Her work history as a clerk began at the Frank Provost and Jean Louis hairdressing salons, then she worked as an insurance clerk in a glass shop and shortly after, also handling insurance paperwork, in an auto repair shop… until she applied for an opening at WORKOUT!
How has been your path and evolution within WORKOUT EVENTS?
Shortly before joining WORKOUT, she began to study the ADE degree at the UNE, because despite having enough knowledge in the administrative area, she knew that this would help her to boost her professional career.
Lucia was very excited to work in the world of events, she found an opening for an administrative position at WORKOUT, she applied and was called for 1 interview… or 4.
“I think I was the only person to go through 4 interviews at WORKOUT before I was hired” (she laughs).
She joined WORKOUT as an Assistant in the administrative department, and her duties were based on budgeting staff for events and billing for services.
“I had all the necessary administrative knowledge to develop my job, but having no experience in the events sector, I had to study all the concepts and terminology. I learned a lot!”
When Lucía joined the company there was no budgeting department, the position was a hybrid and together with another colleague she managed invoices and budgets for events.
“As WORKOUT grew I specialized in doing estimates and my partner specialized in doing invoices, so it was best to decouple the departments and allow both to grow.”
She became responsible for the event budgeting department, which allowed her to structure it, create procedures, training for sales people, etc.
“A lot of the material that now exists in WORKOUT for training salespeople was born out of the event budgeting department.”
Lucía has worked to establish the foundations of her department and over the years she has helped and collaborated with all the departments that make up Workout: Commercial, operational areas(logistics, image, assembly, catering, security and auxiliary), administrative areas, etc.
Without a doubt, Lucia is a great partner and a better person!
Join us to learn more about our event budget manager!
You started as an administrative assistant, then formed the event budgeting department and soon after became RESPONSIBLE for it. During these almost 5 years in WORKOUT, What do you consider to have been the strengths that have led you to be where you are?
When I joined WORKOUT I had little knowledge of the event industry, materials and profiles, so the first thing I had to do was: STUDY.
But listing the most important things for my job growth in the world of events, I think these are the most important points:
- Starting from scratch and from the bottom helped me to understand and learn about all aspects of my field.
- Being humble and asking for help from my peers when I needed it.
- Consistency and dedication.
- Work to learn the concepts and terminology of the sector.
- Have initiative to improve processes.
- To be able to detect areas of opportunity in my department.
- To strive every day.
As budget manager at WORKOUT, what is your next goal and how do you plan to achieve it? What is your next goal and how do you plan to achieve it?
- I would like to expand the team and functions of the department.
- Making the event budgeting department more and more professional
- Gain strength and become increasingly relevant to the rest of the departments.
- Provide more support to sales and other operational departments
On a professional level, What characteristics do you value most in the people around you?
- Involvement in the project
- Honesty
- Punctuality
- Teamwork and peer support
- Ability to recognize mistakes and willingness to improve
Although at work I like to be calm, focused and quiet, I also appreciate the people who bring life to my day to day life.
Doing something you love once a day gives you the energy you need to do the things you don’t like so much. What gives you that energy in your life?
R. Arriving home after work, having a minute to reflect and to be able to remember moments that have marked me. This helps me to disconnect and release the stress of the day.
We want to know more about Lucía. In a word How would you define your past, present and future?
- Past – Wonderful
- Present – Overcoming Always positive, never negative!
- Future – Changes
I say What does …mean to you? and you answer me with the first phrase or word that comes to mind.
- Commitment: To always be at 100 x 100%.
- Teamwork: Partnership
- Living: Enjoying
- Fellowship: Friendship in the workplace
- Success: To triumph, to reach the top.
- Punctuality: Education
Which would you say is your … favorite?
- Film: Fantasia, it’s awesome! A lot of music and few words. Another one I like that is not so childish is “A Beautiful Mind”.
- Book: The Knight in Rusty Armor by Robert Fisher, I like it because it is a combination of self-help (but not the typical one) and novel.
- Word: Espectacular
- Hobby: Painting, both in oil and pastel.
- Music: I like all kinds of music, jazz, classical, but especially folklore.
- Artist or group: I like Jose Merce, especially the songs: \”Aire” and “Al amanecer”. I also like “La zarzamora” by Rocío Jurado and the song “Alfonsina y el mar”.
- Meal: Spaghetti Bolognese
And to close with a flourish, what would be the slogan or phrase that most identifies you?
A. “Joy, effort, details and illusion”.
It is a fragment of a song called “La excepción” by rapper Langui. I really like the background!
All of his songs are inspired by his disability and are helpful to many people. He is a person who has lived through the insufferable and yet sees life in a positive way.
